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I'm trying to record my plutonia under 1 hour speedrun for youtube using prboom plus's built in -viddump command with -timedemo and it doesn't seem to be outputting anything. It used to work perfectly fine on my netbook but now on my alienware 14 it isn't. The timedemo part works fine I can tell because the demo plays very quickly, but viddump is broken for me. I have all three tools downloaded btw.

Here's what it says in the stdout file:

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
default file: C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/prboom-plus.cfg
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/prboom-plus.wad

prboom-plus v2.5.1.3 (http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/)
I_SetAffinityMask: manual affinity mask is 1
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/doom2.wad
IWAD found: C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/doom2.wad
PrBoom-Plus (built Dec 4 2011 21:21:58), playing: DOOM 2: Hell on Earth
PrBoom-Plus is released under the GNU General Public license v2.0.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. See the file COPYING for details.
V_Init: allocate screens.
V_InitMode: using 8 bit video mode
I_CalculateRes: trying to optimize screen pitch
test case for pitch=640 is processed 75563 times for 100 msec
test case for pitch=672 is processed 76385 times for 100 msec
optimized screen pitch is 672
I_InitScreenResolution: Using resolution 640x480
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/prboom-plus.wad
Playing demo plutonia.lmp
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/plutonia.lmp
G_DoPlayDemo: playing demo with Doom/Doom2 v1.9 compatibility
adding C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/doom2.wad
adding C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/prboom-plus.wad
adding plutonia.lmp
adding C:\Users\Tom_Cat\AppData\Local\Temp\prboom-plus-demoex-a02240.wad
W_InitCache
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/plutonia.wad
found C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/plutonia.wad
IWAD found: C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/plutonia.wad
IWAD found: C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3\plutonia.wad
D_InitNetGame: Checking for network game.
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
adding C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3\plutonia.wad
adding C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3/prboom-plus.wad
adding C:\Users\Tom_Cat\AppData\Local\Temp\prboom-plus-demoex-a02240.wad
adding C:\prboom-plus-2.5.1.3\plutonia.wad
adding plutonia.lmp
W_InitCache

M_Init: Init miscellaneous info.
R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon -
R_LoadTrigTables: Endianness...ok.
R_InitData: Textures Flats Sprites
R_Init: R_InitPlanes R_InitLightTables R_InitSkyMap R_InitTranslationsTables R_InitPatches
P_Init: Init Playloop state.
I_Init: Setting up machine state.
I_InitSound: configured audio device with 1024 samples/slice
Fluidplayer: Fluidsynth version 1.1.3
portmidiplayer device list:
MMSystem:Microsoft MIDI Mapper
MMSystem:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
portmidiplayer: Opening device MMSystem:Microsoft MIDI Mapper for output
I_InitSound: sound module ready
S_Init: Setting up sound.
S_Init: default sfx volume 7
HU_Init: Setting up heads up display.
I_InitGraphics: 640x480
I_UpdateVideoMode: 0x60000010, SDL buffer, direct access
I_CapturePrep: opening pipe "oggenc2 -r -R 22050 -q 5 - -o output.ogg"
I_CapturePrep: opening pipe "x264 -o output.mp4 --crf 22 --muxer mp4 --demuxer raw --input-csp rgb --input-depth 8 --input-res 640x480 --fps 35 -"
I_CapturePrep: video pipe failed
ST_Init: Init status bar.
G_DoPlayDemo: playing demo with Final Doom compatibility
vorb_registersong: failed
mad_registersong failed: input buffer too small (or EOF)
db_registersong: couldn't load as tracker
Exp_RegisterSongEx: Using player fluidsynth midi player
P_GetNodesVersion: using normal BSP nodes
I_ShutdownSound:
I_DemoExShutdown: removing C:\Users\Tom_Cat\AppData\Local\Temp\prboom-plus-demoex-a02240.wad

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Which version of x264 do you have? The one I found didn't support mp4 as a container, I had to edit prboom-plus.cfg to use 264 instead.

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/1256609
changes underlined; lines trimmed for legibility

# Video capture encoding settings
cap_soundcommand          "oggenc2 -r -R %s -q 5 - -o output.ogg"
cap_videocommand          "x264 -o output.264 --crf 22 --muxer auto --demuxer ...
cap_muxcommand            "mkvmerge -o %f output.264 output.ogg"
cap_tempfile1             "output.ogg"
cap_tempfile2             "output.264"
cap_remove_tempfiles          1
If that's not the problem, post the mux_* sound_* and video_* text files, they might be more helpful.

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I followed all of those directions, and now it seems like it's working because no sound is playing from the demo and it moves slower, but I still don't see any .mkv video files anywhere...

none of the text files show any signs of error so I don't know what could possibly be going on

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Here's what it says in mux_stdout.txt

mkvmerge v5.1.0 ('And so it goes') built on Nov 28 2011 23:58:28


Error: The file 'output.ogg' has unknown type. Please have a look at the supported file types ('mkvmerge --list-types') and contact the author Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org> if your file type is supported but not recognized properly.


all the other text files are either empty or just list every single frame that's being worked on

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Weird. Does mkvmerge --list-types show ogg as supported?
Where did you get oggenc2.exe ?
Is the ogg being created OK? you can change "cap_remove_tempfiles" to 0 and it should keep the output files, output.ogg should be the audio.

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Hmm. What happens if you make a super-short demo, like 5 seconds on MAP01, and then try that with viddump?

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OK, running out of ideas here... sound_*.txt files are still empty after trying the 5 second demo?

Can you verify your cap_soundcommand line is exactly the same as in my post above? that should be the default, but just in case...

maybe try encoding a wave file with oggenc2 from the command-line? you should be able to just type 'oggenc2 wavefilename.wav' . If you don't have a wav file handy, here's one: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/igblkb7ban76iho/gtrfret.wav
See if oggenc2 works that way and if anything interesting comes up in the terminal.

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meh, I give up. This is literally the most f*cked up problem I've ever seen before in anything in all my years of PC usage. I'll just accept the fact that I can't make youtube videos of demos anymore.

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I actually have the same problem. One day viddump just decided not to work anymore and I started getting that "video pipe failed" error no matter what. Absolutely no idea what caused it.

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Well that's too bad. I wonder if entryway can shed some light on why that might happen.

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I tried copying the files from my netbook and now it outputs a video file but the audio and video are desynchronized and the demo plays back too slowly

EDIT: I changed the ".264" stuff in the cfg back to the default "mp4" and now it seems to work fine...

So I guess the all of the problems are with the latest versions of the files or something like that

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Can somebody please upload a copy of prboom-plus with all the files and settings necessary for the video recording to work? Then I'll try it on my computer and maybe it will work.

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Memfis said:

Can somebody please upload a copy of prboom-plus with all the files and settings necessary for the video recording to work? Then I'll try it on my computer and maybe it will work.


I got version, where you have to press Q (or esc + arrow up + enter + y) before the demo ends, or it will delete the .mkv :D

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Those plums settings allowed me to create an mkv but the synchronization was off.


But I found a better solution:
https://astrataro.wordpress.com/category/encode/x264/
In that page someone provides modified x264 versions with mp4 support. This worked fine for me with the default prboom settings.


This fixes the
x264 [error]: not compiled with MP4 output support
Pasting this here in case people google for the error.

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